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...only serious obstacle to renewed raids might have been pressure from the anti-war movement; but Nixon has gotten only one message from the summer forays of his aides onto the campuses: the movement's dead. "A lot more dead leaves on the ground this fall," as Kingman Brewster has remarked...
...thing there's the presidency. Last Spring, I asked Brewster for an interview for the CRIMSON. He protested shyly that "What with Harvard looking around for a new president, perhaps it's not the best time for my name to be splashed all over the CRIMSON." But like it or not, Brewster's name has been mentioned (if not splashed) practically everywhere else. With the possible exception of S. I. Hayakawa, he is the best-known college president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven year. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired...
SOMETIMES they got responsiveness beyond their wildest dreams, most notably last May. Students announced a strike against Yale in support of the Black Panthers who were on trial in New Haven. Brewster announced he supported the strike. Or did he? At any rate, he didn't mind in the least if students and faculty members skipped classes. And Yale would supply food and lodging to all those coming down to support the Panthers. He never said, of course, that he supported the Panthers. He never said he didn't, either. He did say he doubted the ability of black revolutionaries...
...there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of that Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...